Daylight Recorder response

re: Daylight recorder

Cool idea – some questions: Does it light the whole room in order to simulate the lighting one would experience at a different time? Also – why does it offset by 12 hours? Those of us who wake at noon are more like 6 hours off from other people, who might wake up at 6AM.February 23, 2009, by Amy A.

Amy, I think you’re definitely right about the variable temporal offset. In reality I think I’m also on a 6-hour offset, to be honest. I started thinking about how I might best represent this, and it occurred to me that while my own personal offset may function well in a particular installation format, it may be a more interesting project if I were to take a step back from the concept as a personal gesture and look at it as legitimately functional software. (more…)